Ars Notoria
The Ars Notoria (in English: Notory Art) is a 13th-century Latin textbook of magic (now retroactively called a grimoire) from Northern Italy. It claims to grant its practitioner an enhancement of their mental faculties, the ability to communicate with angels, and earthly and heavenly knowledge through ritual magic. The magical ritual that it describes expresses both religious orthodoxy and esoteric elements. These, besides its promise of a fast track to gaining knowledge rapidly, captivated young boys, university students, and clerics.
The Ars Notoria contains the only known surviving fragment of a book called the Golden Flowers (Latin: Flores Aurei), falsely attributed to Apollonius of Tyana. It is based on this text and consists of its first derivative Latin text, the New Art (Latin: Ars Nova), and other material supplemented by an unknown scribe (or scribes) of the Golden Flowers.
Aside from the New Art, the Ars Notoria established an entire magical tradition and corpus of Latin writings, including the Work of Works (Opus Operum), the Book of Flowers of Heavenly Teaching (Liber Florum Caelestis Doctrinae) composed by John of Morigny, the Short Art (Ars Brevis), the abridged notory art attributed to Thomas of Toledo (Ars Abbreviata), the Pauline Art (Ars Paulina), and The Notory Art, which the Almighty Creator Revealed to Solomon (Ars Notoria, quam Creator Altissimus Salomoni revelavit), lasting until the 17th century.
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